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On the recordFebruary 15, 2011
This account has been hit very, very hard already. Each reduction in the bill was carefully determined. The funding level provided for NIST construction in the bill is $89 million below FY 2010. NIST has played a key role in enabling innovative ideas with regard to strengthening infrastructure for advance manufacturing, service and science. NIST works with the private sector, other government agencies and universities to develop and apply the technology, measurements and standards needed for new and improved products. We have already reduced the funding in this account quite dramatically, and this would really, I think, hurt the jobs effort and hurt manufacturing.
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Tom Wolf
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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The speaker addresses funding cuts to NIST and their impact on jobs and manufacturing.

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